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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
- Joseph Brodsky

The Prairie Free Library - Prairie, ID

Source: Wikipedia
Raconteur: One who tell stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.

Author of over 100 novels, storyteller Louis L’Amour is certainly best known for his westerns and that certainly is the genre with which his name will always be remembered. He did venture at times though from his standard, leaving behind his most recognizable [...]

Stumbling about the long branching hallways of the internet I came across a site filled with wondrous images, tales of foreign lands, libraries stacked to the ceilings with books, cabinets filled with clocks, bones, mysterious paraphenalia and much more.
CuriousExpeditions.org is my kind of place. Their tagline states ‘Travelling and Exhuming the Extraordinary Past‘. Content, [...]

Break, Break, Break,
On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

October 31, 1968
On the final day of a five month starting window, two sailboats, the last of nine, left the shores of England in competition of a single-handed, non-stop race to circle [...]

“Getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
- Mitchell Kapor
In the course of a session or day at my computer I will visit a lot of web addresses, some much more regularly than others. Here is a sampling of favorites -